Lies, bigger lies and then comes 4 Corners.
How much longer do we have to put up with the continuous crap being served by this corrupt institution?
ABC’s Four Corners slammed over old, selective Nauru footage
The random footage of Nauruan adults brawling published on YouTube.
The ABC has endured excoriating criticism of its flagship current affairs program,
Four Corners, after Monday’s episode about refugee children on Nauru was found to include old photographs of facilities no longer in use, and random footage of brawling adults, previously published on YouTube by a user known only as “NoRulz”.
During intense questioning at Senate estimates yesterday, ABC editorial director Alan Sunderland admitted the ABC did not film the footage that went to air on Monday night, but said he was satisfied the vision was “appropriate” for a program devoted to the lives of refugee children on Nauru.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton last night accused the ABC of irresponsibility and said
Four Corners had declined to use new photos and videos, offered by his office, of schools upgraded at a cost of $8.3 million.
The Australian has established that the program included what appears to be random footage of a group of men on Nauru hitting each other with steel poles that can also be found on a YouTube channel run by NoRulz.
On YouTube, the footage is in a video called “Who Let The Dogs Out”. It is one of a series of fight videos posted by NoRulz, who has also posted clips called “Nauru sheet sheet Fight” and “Batud the Deadly”.
The ABC used the footage to illustrate the
Four Corners argument that Nauru is a violent society where refugees feel unsafe, because they have witnessed and been subjected to acts of violence.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...e/news-story/f80ceeb432f4ec5907a10beff3697877
